Backend Engineer

Key Responsibilities:

• Core Infrastructure Development: Design, implement, and maintain high-performance backend services and core infrastructure components using Rust.
• Smart Contract Engineering: Build, optimize, and audit highly secure smart contracts tailored for advanced decentralized virtual machine (EVM) environments.
• Latency Optimization: Develop, refine, and optimize real-time trading infrastructure to achieve sub-millisecond end-to-end execution latencies.
• System Architecture: Collaborate closely with foundational engineering teams on protocol architecture, cryptographic implementation, and scalable distributed system design.
• Security & Cryptography: Integrate privacy-preserving cryptography, including Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs), into the core transaction pipeline.

Requirements:

• ystems Programming: Demonstrated professional proficiency in Rust and low-level systems programming.
• Trading Systems Exposure: Prior exposure to high-throughput quantitative trading systems, market-making infrastructure, or order routing engines.
• Distributed Networks: Proven experience designing, profiling, and optimizing high-performance, low-latency distributed systems.
• Blockchain Knowledge: Strong structural understanding of blockchain architecture, consensus mechanisms, and secure smart contract development.
• Advanced Concepts: Familiarity with mathematical and cryptographic concepts, specifically privacy-preserving primitives and TEE architectures.
• Operational Mindset: An autonomous problem-solving approach with a passion for constructing highly resilient, scalable infrastructure..

Benefits:

• Equity Allocation: Highly competitive equity compensation package ranging from 0.2% to 0.5% based on experience.
• Elite Technical Environment: Opportunity to work alongside industry-leading distributed systems architects and Web3 pioneers.
• Impact: Exposure to cutting-edge technical challenges at the intersection of quantitative finance and advanced cryptography.

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